Love, Mind + Body

How do we want to live alongside intelligent machines?

Join us for an evening of robotics, research and conversation. We’ll explore how machines perceive, move and respond to us—and what designers, engineers and researchers can learn from one another.

Our theme is Love, Mind + Body: how we connect with machines, how they learn, and what happens when they meet the physical world.

The details

  • When: Wednesday, 7 October 2026 · 18:00–21:00 BST

  • Where: Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

  • Entry: Free · 100 in-person places

  • Online: Livestream via Google Meet

Who’s speaking

  • Lingfan Bao — how humanoid and quadruped robots learn to move and interact with the world. Research profile

  • Ava Oppenheimer — making physics simulation more reliable and closing the gap between simulation and reality. Research profile

  • One more speaker to be announced.

The evening

18:00 — Food, DJ set and hellos18:40 — Welcome to Physical I/O19:00 — Talks and Q&A20:00–21:00 — Meet people and keep the conversation going---

Physical I/O is a community led by curiosity, design and engineering, exploring how humans and intelligent systems coexist in the physical world.Sign up to watch all our previous recordings!Discover more of our community here,https://www.physical-io.com/Come for the talks, bring your questions, and stay for a chat. We’ll start with food and a DJ set. You don’t need to be a robotics expert to join.Where we'll be hosting our event:Please message the host if you get locked outside the building,LG17 Lecture Room, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG,